Do Bees Actually Like Jazz?

how you going so a couple of videos ago i made this video in which i tested whether frogs would get little froggy stiffies while listening to a speaker playing raunchy frog noises and jazz and if you haven't watched that i am now setting it as compulsory viewing material after this video and expect a 300 word critique by next thursday and no you can't have an extension because your nan died as all of italy is now using that same excuse so after making that video it soon became very clear that i made a terrible mistake and should not have made it because if many of you pointed out if i was going to test the response of any animal to jazz it should have been bees why because of this one line from a movie you like jazz and if you haven't seen it it's about class struggle and a bee that breaks his oath of silence by flirting with a human in the hope that he would become the first insect to smash that's all he says there's no other reference to jazz in the movie besides this one line you're like jazz and we don't even know why he's asking but regardless i got over a hundred comments telling me i should have tested bees and you all thought i wouldn't do it but i just happen to be very passionate about breaking down invertebrate and vertebrate boundaries and i'm also hungry for that honey so let's do it do bees actually like jazz to test this i should only need two things bees and some jazz and i did build a bee hotel earlier with the hope that i would help the native bee population thrive and also would have some captives that i could do strange experiments on but at the moment it only has five larvae residents and i don't think blasting jazz and screaming into their rooms while they're sleeping would achieve very much hello is there anyone in there hello so instead i'm going to contact a man who has somehow successfully convinced hundreds of thousands of bees with a bad smoking habit to live in his yard stewart like tobacco yeah do the bees like tobacco no i don't think so now stewart didn't want me to use his real name so let's just call him [Music] stewart stewart reckons he has over 400 000 bees that live in around six hives and after doing a quick count myself i agree with his estimate one of these hives recently split so before i start my own experiment stuart kindly offered to show me why youthful people have bees and to open up his new hive revealing the queen bee it's very badly damaged but you can see already they've started to clean up the hexagons yeah wow and she's in this plastic clip i'll just just my hand sitting they're amazingly calm for having their house kind of destroyed by a giant yeah if i came in and broke in your house you wouldn't be so happy would you no i would not but maybe if you smoked me i'd be all right maybe that's the secret these guys here i don't know i'm gonna see this guy he's stuck his bum in the air and he opens a little gland on the back on the tip of his tail and that's sort of saying come here stealing all the other boots in this other box oh really to come over here is that when there's danger when they're threatened or it's just like saying hey mate come here just just calling out which one's the queen uh you'll see here on this side she's a lot bigger oh yeah with the big big abdomen let her come around so what does she do she lays she just lays eggs thousands of eggs a day over her body weight in eggs a day in that box and then the other bees carry it away or no the bees have to clean up those hexagon cells okay and she lays in there yep i'll try and point to her as she kind of comes okay what she's just going to go straight back down oh yeah she's gone yeah simple as that oh wow it's pretty quick isn't it well i always assumed when i've seen it on tv and people doing a similar thing to this that you're being stung multiple times and you just kind of accept it no no okay generally if you treat them properly they're they treat you properly yeah i just got stung first time because i squashed it does that mean you're going to get stung more now now stewart is full of all kinds of interesting b facts for example the beekeepers apparently have a much lower cancer and hiv rate compared to the general population and studies suggest this might be linked to being regularly stung by bees or the fact that no doctors actually want to go near the beekeepers to test them and i don't think i currently have either of these illnesses but it's good to know if i do develop them i can get cured while also picking up a fun new hobby so you've got kept honey oh yeah so they're babies that are ready to hatch and then if we come further out you'll see i don't know if you can see down in there so we can get in the blue you'll see a larvae in the cell a white pupae on the edge of that brown oh yeah i see them do they because when they sting you they they they do they always die is there any way to take them out of your foot without killing them now the guy in america who they can if you let them wriggle around and [ __ ] get themselves out okay but i tried it a few times okay they have to be so committed to actually want to sting someone then if that do they know they're going to die no because they can sting a lot of other things without well without dying without dying it's just us okay yeah it's just human skin for some reason the barb gets caught in it poor guys uh yeah they can sting a dog or something and survive i've been told oh first thing oh i tried on him you're right pull the stinger out quickly yeah i think you want some tongues or something yeah i shouldn't be doing this and after being stung by enough bees to bring both freddie mercury and patrick swayze back to life it was time to move on with my experiment and stuart said something interesting about my test and that was if this actually works and bees like jazz it could be very useful providing beekeepers with another option besides smoke for calming angry bees so maybe this isn't pointless after all and i could actually be the buzz aldrin of the b world responsible for giant leaps forward in the b industry now unlike me my brother does actually play saxophone and jazz [Music] and i originally wanted to place him next to the hive playing some sweet jazz tunes and then some classical music for comparison however sometime in the past 24 hours he decided that he was lame and anaphylactic so i'm not going to be able to use him without getting in trouble so i'm gonna have to use a speaker instead now when the bees leave their hive it's usually for a couple of reasons either getting water or food or to die stinging me so i'll set up two water containers in the yard one with a speaker next to it playing music and then one on the other side of the yard equally far away playing no music then i just put on some smooth jazz kick back my feet relax and see if we can notice the difference between the two [Music] so [Music] [Music] bye [Music] so [Music] do [Music] so [Music] now when flying in normal speed bees look pretty smooth like they have their lives together but slow down that footage and you suddenly realize that none of them know what they're doing and watching bees being idiots in slow motion is probably my new favorite thing to do [Music] all right the experiment seems to have a pretty clear difference this is the one that was playing jazz and all the way over here is the one that was not playing anything with the music no music with the music without the music and the bees really prefer the feeding station without the music look at them they're so happy with their little bums in the air and at first i didn't really understand why this would happen when i got home and i did a bit more research i discovered something shocking bees do not have ears which confuse me even more and makes my whole experiment a waste of time and i should have realized this earlier as if i'd paid attention during the b movie i would have noticed that none of the characters have ears but then again the bees were speaking english and engaging in legal arguments so i wasn't really sure what to believe so now you might be wondering why there would be a difference between the two feeding stations if they can't hear well turns out what they lack in ears they make up for their sensitivity to good vibes bees don't have ears but are able to communicate with each other by picking up vibrations in their hairy legs which might actually be why they enjoyed my company so much but if these vibes are of the negative kind and too strong like from a speaker then the bees seem to avoid it meaning they probably don't like jazz and if we go back to the movie and this line you're like jazz you'll notice he didn't actually say whether he likes jazz or not maybe he was actually going to ask this question because he hates jazz and then he can work out who likes it and avoid all the saxophone enthusiasts now of course none of this is scientific and is a very limited observational test i wouldn't listen to anything i say as you need to remember i'm just a random guy on the internet that wants to get a certain result so then i can clickbait you into watching my video and i reckon in order to actually get an accurate conclusion you would have to do years of testing with thousands of bees and hundreds of anaphylactic musicians which would get pretty expensive but now that i have enough of a conclusion to make a video i wanted to thank stuart for letting me bumble around with these bees and you know if any of you are in sydney and want some sweet sweet honey get it from stewart who unlike other honey manufacturers has told me he never ever sticks his fingers in the jars check him out in the description down below so now go watch my original jazz test video and have your 300 word critique on my desk by next thursday best write-up gets this now half-eaten jar of honey thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe and check out some of my other stuff

Channel: I did a thing

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Keywords: science, funny, education, educational, william osman, michael reeves, i did a thing

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Length: 12min 35sec (755 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 30 2020

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